| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 148 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: The loss of culture and the desire to transmit it onward -- Transmission impossible in West Africa -- UNESCO, bureaucratic nostalgia, and cultural loss -- Toward the end of societies? -- The plastic anthropologist -- Conclusion: For a cultural and patrimonial diplomacy |
| Summary |
"Many people talk about how we're "losing everything"--Our culture, our traditions, our roots. As calls for cultural preservation multiply across the globe, anthropology teaches us that there are different ways of thinking about loss, memory, transmissions, and heritage. In this short book, translated from the French for the first time, David Berliner contemplates what the role of the anthropologist should be in a world obsessed with maintaining the past, while also rocketing toward the future"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Translation of: Perdre sa culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cultural property -- Protection.
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Collective memory.
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Group identity.
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Cultural diplomacy.
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Anthropology.
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group identity.
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anthropology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Anthropology
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Collective memory
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Cultural diplomacy
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Cultural property -- Protection
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Group identity
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Horsfall, Dominic, translator
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| ISBN |
9781978815377 |
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1978815379 |
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9781978815391 |
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1978815395 |
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